Asset Data Acquisition

Company Profile: Candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions were able to provide a unique offering to this underserved doing so we aim to have a big social impact reduce carbon emissions create jobs increase energy access and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.

Our approach is to take the risk so our partners dont have to providing businesses with flexible end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings quality engineering and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns.

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Asset Data Acquisition Engineer who will help candi to further deliver premium solar solutions. Given that candi is taking solar into a new realm with a new set of tools the role will require creativity innovation and proactive involvement.

Specifically the job requires taking ownership of the following for the Indian team:

• Setup and management of data acquisition hardware & infrastructure from the solar plants to the data servers.
  • Examples of hardware include utility scale SCADA systems data loggers meters sensors PLCs site networking & telecommunications routers.
  • Ensuring communication between the various hardware components and to cloud servers.
• Ensure and enhance data specification compliance validity integrity and delivery consistency
• Validate and maintain solar plant output power control setup between solar Inverter generator and battery hybrid system options where applicable.
• Liaise with communication equipment OEMs to maximize internalization of knowledge troubleshooting capabilities
• Drive local and global data acquisition systems development on hardware and software side to strategically optimize solar performance data capturing.
• Support the Asset Management team in resolving plant issues.
  

Experience : 6 - 8 years PV industry or related industry work experience in industrial automation and commissioning diagnosing & troubleshooting data systems & related hardware

Location: Pune combined with working from home

Hours: Full time.

Job Requirements:

• Appropriate qualification (BTech / BEng / Energy Systems / Data Science / Networking) or other justified
• Hands-on experience in setting up vetting and troubleshooting data acquisition systems such as SCADAs or other data loggers remotely
• Remote data assessment and validation with additional ability to manually complement data sets.
• Experience in managing third party hardware and software providers to deliver effective data acquisition setups.
• Field experience for hardware setup especially with AC/DC Power Systems / IT systems / SCADA / Industrial Automations
• Knowledge how to evaluate and compare industrial automation hardware and software solutions offered in the market setup
• Advanced Data Analytics and Engineering is a plus as are familiarity with SQL and Python coding
• Desire to work in an international environment sharing ideas and learnings across borders and cultures
  

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego being authentic no matter what that we get it done as one and follow the candi principle that less is more
• A dynamic cross-functional team player willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company or having studied or worked abroad is considered a plus.
• You must be open honest trustworthy a strong communicator and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• candi is an equal opportunities employer.

Candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where hybrid working is commonplace where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Required Experience:

Manager